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Monel and Joselie Dorméus Jules
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Monel Jules was born on August 17, 1975 in Limbé, the second largest city in the northern region of Haiti. He is the youngest of five children (two brothers and two sisters) in a Baptist family. From early on, he received a Christian education that will lead him later to attend Sunday school. At the age of 16, he met the Lord personally in a Bible study. He realized his lost condition, but had not fully grasped the magnitude of the situation and the importance of a personal decision to accept the Lord. Since then, he served the Lord and went to the seminary in 1995. After years of theological study in Haiti and in the United States, he became the Dean of the school of Theology at North Haiti Christian University, replacing Dr. Jules Casséus.

Joselie Dorméus Jules was born in Limbé on January 6, 1979, into a Baptist family of four children – one boy and three girls (of which she is the third). After receiving the Lord personally in her life, she was coincidently baptized on the same day as Monel, on March 1992; they were friends and teenagers at that time. She pursued her doctorate in the Dominican Republic, where she was accepted at Universidad Central del Este, San Pedro de Marcoris (1999-2004). She returned to Haiti and married Monel on March 18, 2005. Joselie received nutritional training through TRANSNUT, a program affiliated with the Université de Montréal. Following training in Montreal (October 2007), Joselie conducted research on location in Port-au-Prince, where her study was entitled The Transitional Nutritional Problem of the Urban Haitian (January-July 2008). Joselie currently works At the medical of Haiti's Eden, Limbé, Haiti. They lived on the campus of North Haiti Christian University with their three children, Amy, Joey and Emily. They are affiliated and working with the Baptist Convention of Haiti.

Monel and Joselie are the founders of Haiti's Eden (www haitiseden.org), a nonprofit organization aiming to evangelization, healthcare, social and agricultural engagement (see Monel's blog).

The research conducted by both Monel and Joselie have brought them to explore a major component of the Haitian society: voodoo. Monel’s academic work for his pastoral license, master’s degree, and doctorate have all involved a study of voodoo and its various effects on society in general and on the Protestant Church of Haiti in particular. He is interested in finding the steps to a renewed Haitian society, distinctly separate from its traditional stereotype. This new society will be possible only when people turn their faces from the evil of voodoo; the church leaders strengthen the missiological method of the church; and the social, medical, and political leaders lead the country towards sustainable development instead of running after traditional illusions.

Monel's publication: "Dialogue des cousins - Congo-Haiti" - Essay "The Haitian Cities Unease of Theology" - Article - The Lausanne Pulse "Voodoo and Development in Haiti" - Doctoral Dissertation "Haiti: de la reconstruction à la construction" - Article - Christian Direction "L'Église et l'engagement communautaire"